Just a quick update for sol 3349, using the rover's metadata. I will do a better one when more images are available.
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Here's the updated map, the "big" version this time, including the current position as of sol 3351 although this last one is still purely based on the rover's metadata. Some of the latest positions have been readjusted based on the navcams.
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My route map updated with the last drives until sol 3356. I will keep posting updates for the rest of the week but will be on vacation for the next two ones. If anyone wants to take over, please do so.
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I'll just keep this going until Tesheiner gets back.

Phil

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Updated to sol 3362. Thanks to mhoward for his input. I've never known a place as difficult as this to locate sites, but it should be easier when full 360 degree Navcam pans are available.

Phil

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Update to 3363. All details subject to minor revisions!

Phil

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Update to sol 3364

Phil

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Thank you for the updates, and you'll indeed get some very good landmarks in just a day or two now. =)

Update to sol 3366.

Phil

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I added a temporary extension to the map until I can get around to a proper job. Update to 3369. Someone forgot to set the parking brake on sol 3364.

Phil

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That comment & route map made me wonder where Oppy might be headed..... no-one seems to know....

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The quote from Larry Crumpler's blog linked in post 331 in the "Heading South..." thread bears repeating.

"Because we have been making good time, we have a couple of sols of margin that we would like to use , there is a desire to do a short side trip to the east to investigate an anomaly detected from orbital remote sensing. This means descending into the crater wall a hundred meters or so before turning south to intercept Solander Point. The anomaly looks texturally different as well as spectrally different. We will see what we see."

Update to sol 3371.

Phil

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Just came back from a (much needed) vacation. Two weeks away from work (but not from UMSF, at least in "lurking mode").
Just would like to say many, many thanks to Phil for keeping this thread alive during this time, and for all others which were also helping on the rover's localization. Still have some things to do here on earth before moving to the martian duty, but I guess tomorrow I will be able to resume that.

Ok, done.
Here's the route map, and in KML format too. Updated to sol 3374.
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I have updated the map including this last drive on sol 3384 and "Black Shoulder" too. Here's a crop of it and the GE version too.
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Sol 3385, including the 38km mark.
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Sol 3387.
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Sol 3389.
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Here's the map update for sol 3398.
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It's time for another map update.
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I'm posting the big picture covering both Cape York and Solander Point once again, probably the last time because I plan to reduce it and focus only on Solander Point. This one is good up to sol 3410.
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Here's a map crop centered at Solander Point and good up to sol 3426. And the version for Google Earth too, as usual.
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Sol 3430.
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Sol 3437.
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A quick update, good up to sol 3441, but I still have to double-check the last two positions against the navcam mosaics.
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Time for another update, with the latest data from sol 3451.
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Thanks as ever to Tesheiner for updating this map so faithfully.

I was just putting this together for my book and thought I would share it. I still have a few names to add, I think, and a scale. The white squares are the main science stops - a little refinement I have just been adding retroactively to maps for all rovers in the atlas.

Phil

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Wow! Please share those more often, Phil.

I second that!

Amazing work you guys do. A request for one different view as we proceed up the hill. Could someone take a far off ground level view of Solander Point and from time to time show the general location on the side of that hill? All those outcrops are looking very alike and while the overheads are wonderful, I'm just not getting a feel for how much up is involved in each move.

I think that Midnight Planets can do exactly that.

It can certainly help visualize where the rover is, but the raw tracking data is not precise enough to accurately place the rover from a significant distance (or sometimes, as you know, even from a moderate distance). And I haven't had time to do my own corrections of the tracking data so far.

Art, you may want to check this out - second image down on this page.

Phil

http://nmnaturalhistory.org/rover-field-re...-from-mars.html

Here's where I think "Kangaroo Paw" (Sol 3459) is on the Sol 3366 long baseline stereo mosaic. This is based on a whole lot of looking around, but I could easily be wrong... corrections welcome.

Ooh, neat, and thanks for doing it in 3D!

I think that's right - there are three rocky spurs - tiny outcrops - here, seen in Navcams, and we can see them here in your anaglyph.

Phil

That's very helpful. I remember many such virtual views from a distance being posted when we were at Victoria crater. I think it's time to resurrect the genre. We're on a convex slope here so the view from the rover is limited and not easily related to the wider context.

Looks like a good position. Thanks for doing this.

Total stab-in-the-dark attempt to relate the positions in the last two perspectives in Phil's link and mhoward's post.
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Yeah, this type of localization really helps.

The best example of this if the famous 'alan is lost' Spirit route maps of the inner basin:

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http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...ost&p=44626

Thank you all so much. Exactly what I was hoping for.

Here's an updated map where I took some time to revise a few of the previous positions starting at sol 3437.
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BTW, I'm not so confident about the location of our current site (Kangaroo Paw) on the map and any help is welcome.
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You are exactly on target!

Phil

Here's an update on my version of the Solander map. Details, including locations of named features, are always subject to further refinement.

Phil

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Here's an update of my route maps, up to sol 3473.
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Just a quick map update. Up to sol 3478.
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I haven't taken time to do this 'properly', but here's where I think she is on sol 3485 on the long baseline anaglyph.


Sol3366LongBaselineAnaglyphWithPositions_3485 on Flickr

My location is very close to that. Here I combine the HiRISE view (south up, borrowed from Tim Parker's map at the MER website) and a vertigo-inducing stretch of the red channel from Mike's anaglyph. The red dot shows my current position. Using this comparison it's easy to match the HiRISE with the surface view.

Phil

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Looks good. I'd just add that based on this map from Crumpler and Phil's location I think you could argue that we've now basically arrived at the "winter outcrops".